Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism
Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism
- Subject: Re: MAC OS native 3rd party software update mechanism
- From: Sebastian Nowicki <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 01:57:59 +0800
On 05/07/2008, at 12:18 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 4 Jul '08, at 6:29 AM, Paul Sargent wrote:
Doesn't do diffs though.
Which is kind of a shame, as a good binary diff is vastly smaller
than downloading the entire app.
But I'm sure implementing diff support would be harder than on
Windows, because Mac apps are directory trees, not single files. So
the patch process would have to use one diff per file and apply them
recursively. Not rocket science, but a wee bit tricky. (Looks like
Sparkle isn't open source, unfortunately.)
—Jens
I haven't looked into xdeltas at all, but wouldn't it be possible to
use a tarball and diff that instead?
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